AI Agents Aren't Magic: They Need This 'Harness' Crutch to Actually Work
Your next AI agent won't run wild without a harness—think of it as the unglamorous plumbing that turns raw LLM brains into something useful. But who's cashing in on all this engineering grunt work?
⚡ Key Takeaways
- AI agents rely on 'harnesses'—human code wrappers—for memory, tools, and execution, not model magic alone.
- Filesystems and bash are core primitives, echoing old-school software plumbing.
- Harness builders stand to profit most, as models commoditize.
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Originally reported by LangChain Blog
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